A part of me wants to get into this, as the above examples were not "egregious pass interference or holding or illegal contact penalties that helped the Huskies." But I tend to not get when someone is being tongue in cheek, and this seems like a bit, and thus not serious.
This is a bit, right? Or there's some mention of the uncalled penalties Washington committed coming? Surely the intentional PI and holds that cost 13 yards after Texas missed on third and 14 are not the strongest indicator of unfairness?
I already mentioned the non-calls.
And I'll point out that I never mentioned the officiating here, until someone asked. The game is over. But I'm not going to sit around and pretend I thought the officiating was in any way "fair."
There were numerous holds of Texas defenders by the Washington o-line, none of which were called. If this were one of those games where the refs simply didn't call holding because "there's holding on every play" then I'd be fine with it. But that wasn't the case. They called holding, but only against one team.
Same thing for DPI. Texas was called for a defensive pass interference that was no different than several plays by Washington defenders. Called against Texas, no-called against Washington.
Like MDT pointed out, it's much more about the non-calls, than the calls. If you're going to ignore holding and DPI, that's fine, it's pretty common in the B12 and I'm accustomed to seeing games called that way. But they only ignored holding and DPI for one team, not both. The sum total of the thumb on the scales, I considered to be egregious.
but, I'm all for allowing any Horn fan to vent about any and all penalties that seemed unjust or unfair and tilting the outcome
I don't think it's appropriate to classify my response as "venting." Like I said, I never even mentioned the penalties on this thread, until
you asked lh320 and me, specifically.
